Democrats, Struggling For Oxygen, Blame The Media – Is Aoc The Answer?

Jim Clyburn is ripping nan media.

The Democratic congressman, who fundamentally handed Joe Biden nan information successful 2020, says nan statement is having problem getting its connection out.

"I deliberation nan connection coming from nan Democratic Party is simply a bully message," nan South Carolina lawmaker told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi. "The problem we’ve got, I’ll say, is that we person to dangle upon nan media to present it."

Let maine extremity correct there. The party’s support ratings are successful nan toilet – that’s not nan media’s fault. The statement mislaid each plaything authorities to Donald Trump successful November – that’s not nan media’s fault.

And nan Democrats person nary clear leader astatine nan infinitesimal – again, not nan media’s fault. 

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"If we person The Washington Post, for instance, caving to this wannabe dictator and we’ve sewage different media entities that look to alternatively push a communicative that will bring eyes to their newspapers aliases to their tv sets and not really springiness a adjacent proceeding aliases reporting to what we’re doing," said Clyburn, exempting Velshi.

"I would dream that location are group extracurricular of nan assemblage taking successful what we’re saying because my connection is gonna beryllium very, very coherent. It’s going to beryllium very – a small spot alarming. But it’s gonna beryllium a connection that I deliberation everybody will understand if they were to perceive it."

Sorry to break it to nan esteemed congressman, but it’s not nan media’s occupation to transportation h2o against nan man he calls a "wannabe dictator." You and your colleagues tin only do it by getting retired location and making, uh, news.

Former statement whip, Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., seems to beryllium blaming nan media for his party's nonaccomplishment to put retired a connection that resonates pinch nan public. (Brian Stukes/Getty Images)

At nan aforesaid time, everyone already hates us. So it’s hardly astonishing that nan left, arsenic good arsenic nan right, is bashing our business.

I mean, Joe Biden hardly talked to journalists – moreover for a Super Bowl question and reply – and now we cognize why.

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Gavin Newsom is intelligibly moving for president successful 2028 – and he makes news by appearing connected Fox and right-wing podcasts. This shows that he’s consenting to prosecute nan different side. 

"I don’t cognize what nan statement is. I’m still struggling pinch that," Newsom told nan Hill.

He besides had California writer nan White House complete nan tariffs.

The buzz correct now is astir AOC moving for president. This seems far-fetched connected its look – not because she was erstwhile a bartender, which gives her thoroughfare cred, but because of her uber-liberal record.

Yet she and Bernie Sanders are drafting immense crowds astir nan state successful what feels for illustration a generational handoff – an image captured connected nan beforehand page of Sunday’s Washington Post.

After making an first scatter arsenic a rebel, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now useful pinch nan party’s leadership.

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A blimpish columnist for nan Hill listed her arsenic No. 1 for nan adjacent election, calling AOC "simply nan astir breathtaking fig successful Democratic politics…Yes, she has a legion of detractors. But she besides has charisma, authenticity and nan expertise to tie immense crowds."

But moreover nan columnist, Niall Ferguson, asks: "Would a left-wing Latina from New York City really beryllium nan champion action for a statement that needs to triumph states for illustration Michigan and Pennsylvania to return backmost nan White House?"

Axios says Ocasio-Cortez, 35, "has been shouted for illustration a governmental stone prima complete nan past 2 weeks" and knows really to make nan rate registry ring: "In nan first 3 months of 2025, she raised $9.6 cardinal – much than double what she’d ever raised successful a quarter."

The existent buzz is each astir whether Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is moving for president – and she does look to person nan momentum to backmost it up. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

She would undoubtedly beryllium opposed by center-left liberals for illustration Josh Shapiro who would accent nan value of winning plaything states like, uh, Pennsylvania.

Now it’s a spot crazy to beryllium talking astir this conscionable 3 months into Trump’s 2nd term. Someone who’s "hot" now could easy cool disconnected by then. Name nickname only takes you truthful far.

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In a caller Gallup poll, conscionable 25 percent expressed assurance successful Democratic legislature leadership, an all-time low.

Republicans don’t expect adjacent sum from nan media. But galore Dems enactment personally offended erstwhile they tie captious coverage.

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The takeaway: Democrats person to make their ain news, not conscionable bash nan media. But hey, we’re nan easiest target retired there.